Word: cousinly
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...Kelly's Rue du Parc-Royal headquarters, Aunt Jemima rag dolls flop on a Louis Vuitton footlocker. Josephine Baker posters loom over a rainbow coalition of assistants. When Kelly's cousin Michael Thomas, a 345-lb. trucker, came to see the Louvre debut, he brought 20 packages of grits. ("Patrick said, 'If you don't bring no grits, don't come," said Thomas, grinning.) The models really chowed down. "I'm not the Great Black Hope, honey," says Kelly. "But it's like the old song, 'You use what you got to get what you want...
...London party girl dates prominent newspaper editors, several Members of Parliament and a junior government minister. Using her high-level connections, she lands a research job, complete with security clearance, in the House of Commons. In her spare time she may have befriended an alleged Libyan intelligence officer, a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi's. As Professor Henry Higgins exclaimed in My Fair Lady, "How simply frightful! How humiliating! How delightful...
Like a prima donna basking in applause, the personal computer has long held center stage in the electronics world. But now the limelight is shifting to a more glamorous cousin: the workstation. Small enough to fit on a desktop, the workstation may look like a personal computer, but it acts more like a powerful mainframe. Says Charles Boesenberg, executive vice president of MIPS Computer Systems, one of the many players in the fiercely competitive workstation market: "What we've done is put the power and capability of an ocean liner into a speedboat...
However, beginning slopes are more likely to be called "Drooling Baby Sister," "Kissing Cousin" or "Diapered Kitten." Believe me that it is impossible to boast, "I'm just raring to get out there and take on the challenge of `Drooling Baby Sister...
...Bill, do you think I will ever learn to stop using this snowshoe position?" "Noooooo Problem." "Bill, am I advanced enough to go down `Kissing Cousin?'" "Noooooo Problem." "Bill, could you get a real life, beginning by wiping that self-satisified smirk off your sickeningly cheerful face...